Mushrooms and kilts

Scottish foraging
(artist's impression!)

Glasgow these days is getting ready for Commonwealth Games that are due to open on 23rd July next year, and part of the preparations is to make city's numerous blank building walls look better by painting murals on them. These have been springing up left and right recently, mostly featuring some kind of athletic activity. The one in Merchant city, however, features local wildlife: red deer, highland cattle, badgers, a manic squirrel being hunted by a fox, and a man in a kilt hunting mushrooms.

It is good to see that fungi are being featured with prominence they deserve. The picker is even holding an edible mushroom (bay boletus in fact), so the artists must have done some basic research. Just don't take it as recommendation for action and go to a forest dressed like this: a kilt would do nothing to protect you against ticks!